HELLO AND WELCOME! Before you can post your question, you'll have to register -- it's completely free and registered users see less advertising! If you just want to browse through the existing questions, just select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Otherwise, click here to register!. We highly recommend that you print a copy of our Guide for New Members. Enjoy!

Printers

ops: OK. Dim bulb is back.

I have two SuSE linux machines. I have managed to get one set up with three printers of various flavors using the 'LPD Forwarding (without filtering)', the other has the same options grayed out and can't be selected.

Re: Printers

Both machines are SuSE 8.1. Both were loaded identically when delivered. The machine that has three working are: HP8100 Laser B/W, mt691 line printer, and a sharp 160c network printer/copier.

I viewed the lpfilter file on the non working machine and found all items commented out and then went ahead and set up the hp8100 as a filtered/forwarding spool and it prints in a fashion. The top of the print job is trimmed and the bottom is too long. But at least I am getting somewhere.

Dont know about the other two, because I only buy HP printers because they have really nice linux drivers. For your 8100, make sure you have installed the hpijs driver package which includes official drivers for most (all?) modern hp printers.

Re: Printers

Thanks 'comtux' for the continuing dialog. Below is what I should have clearly presented earlier.

Box #1 = IBM 325x 'elbert'
Suse 8.1 Pro
Gnome
Printers Connected via the LAN on a Win98 server: HP8100n, HP4500c, mt691 line printer, plus an HP405n shared on a desktop with XP as the O/S.
What works = mt691 and the HP8100n, and what doesn't work yet = HP4500c and the shared HP4050n, plus a shared HP4si on another desktop. The Win98 server is using NIPrint (an LPD client/server package) to accept print jobs from *nix machines. Those working were set up using 'yast' > Hardware > Printer > Configure > Show more connections > LPD forwarding queue. I will set up the others and some more using the same procedure.

Box #2 = IBM 325x 'evans'
Suse 8.1 Pro
Gnome
Printers Connected via the LAN on a Win98 server: HP8100n, HP4500c, mt691 line printer, plus an HP405n shared on a desktop with XP as the O/S.
None are presently working because the 'yast' > Hardware > Printer > Configure > Show more connections > LPD forwarding queue is grayed out and cannot be selected.

1. Printers Connected via the LAN on a Win98 server: HP8100n, HP4500c, mt691 line printer,
2. plus an HP405n shared on a desktop with XP as the O/S.

Dude what you have here is failer to communicate.

I am going to tell you what i would do k.
Get a Auto Parallel port Switchbox
Dump the windows partitions and find your self a copy of vmware.

Because that setup is a cluster fuck of a mess keep it simple besides that unless i was there with you i can't really help you have 4 printers compleatly supported by linux and 2 maybe's use a swith and vmware to install windows 98 on to install the other 2 printers.